David, Jeremiah and Jesus wept also!

 

Thank you "Amigo" for being a friend,

Our Lord's comfort come always timely and perfectly prescribed.
He knows what we need to hear and when we need to hear it.

It is so much like HIM with his eyes over his own and his ears attempted to our prayers as his tender and gentle left arm is under and around me holding me tight close to his heart while with his right hand he wipes the tears that have managed to escape my brave hearts that struggles to remain courageous for my family and friend's sake.

I am glade that I live alone so I do not scary people by weeping out loud at seventy as a Toddler who has bruised his knees and is in need of an ever effective all curing kiss.
I love the warmth of God's as he seem to leave the whole universe unattended to just be with me as the following words of today's reading speaks to my broken heart that at the same time reveals the heart of God to me.

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9.

I am a soldier under command to be strong and courageous, not to be afraid or discouraged. My Father in heaven is not like other fathers who say to their children "BE A MAN" “REAL MEN DON’T CRY” and expect them to "BE A MAN". No, Jehovah asks me to be more than a man; he wants me to be like his Son Jesus and accomplishes that by "BEING WITH ME WHEREVER I GO".

Our Papa in heaven demands from us only that which he enables us by his love and grace and presence. There is nothing that our intimacy with the Lord cannot take care of.

What then shall I fear? "If God is with us, WHO can be against us?"
Have you ever seen a cocky Cock in a cockfight fighting in front of his young roosters and their chicks weeping like a little girl and crowing like a chicken?

Before you see one today I will take a shower to conceal my tears and look good for no other reason but not to put to shame my Lord and discourage the weak knee among our number. As the saying goes, "I will be sad tomorrow, not today".

Hosanna the Lord has come, praise God he has come down for me".
Thank you my beloved "Finger prints of God", who still believe in weeping prophets. Pray for me as I have lost on Februaries, my wife, the love of my life, my mentor of many years in Doug Coe, my daughter Keila and today “Our uncle Billy Graham at age 99 and let us testify together as if there is no tomorrow, for tomorrow may not come for us.

We are witnesses here to testify today, for it is better an open rebuke today than hidden love. The finality of death is such that we are left only with memory of what we could have done and did not do.

This is Gerry the unworthy father of Keila of whom the world was not worthy of her. Seeking to honor lives well lived.

The fact that they were girls did not keep me from going hunting and fishing together until we became together "Fishers of Men" and make disciples of all nations by teaching them to "Obey" everything Jesus thought us. Focused in Jesus all the way we who are left are having so much fun with Jesus.